First State Ballet Theatre dancers rehearse a scene for the upcoming performance of 'Irene,' which will be at The Grand on Friday.

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Margie Fishman
The News Journal

Sexy and sadistic, "Irene," First State Ballet Theatre's vampire valentine, features angular women in leather-and-lace-trimmed corsets and polka-dot and plaid tutus clawing and shoving one another and crawling around the floor like gremlins.

Against a sparse backdrop of rotating panels, the Wilmington company will blur the lines between mortal and immortal, classical and contemporary at a one-night-only premiere Friday at The Grand. ...